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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I w

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. – Gustave Flaubert

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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. – Gustave Flaubert

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